Continuing the debate: Cognitive enhancement therapy for mood disorders.
Continuing the debate: Cognitive enhancement therapy for mood disorders.
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DOI:
10.1111/bdi.12919
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发表时间:
2020-08
影响因子:
5.4
通讯作者:
Hammar Å
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作者:
Douglas KM;Peckham AD;Porter RJ;Hammar Å
We recently published a debate article on the topic of cognitive interventions for mood disorders (1), which has received interest from experts in the area, including many of our respected colleagues (2, 3). We appreciate, as Burdick et al.(2) point out, that novel and important research is being conducted worldwide to address the issue of persisting cognitive impairment in mood disorders. It is therefore timely to be having a fruitful discussion about issues in this area and below we address some of the points raised in the responses to our original debate article.First, the term ‘Cognitive Enhancement Therapy for Mood Disorders (CET-MD)’, which was proposed in Douglas et al.(1), has been questioned by both Burdick et al.(2) and Rossell (3), who highlighted the use of CET in schizophrenia research (as was outlined in the original Douglas et al. article), and doubted whether a change in terminology would result in any real benefit to this field. We appreciate that the term CET is not completely new or original. However, we wanted to emphasise the fact that current cognitive interventions for mood disorders typically use a strength-based approach to enhance individuals’ cognitive function and cognitive confidence, rather than focusing on fixing a ‘deficit’, as from a ‘remediation’perspective. We used the provocative step of suggesting a new term as a means of drawing attention to the issue, and to stimulate debate. As Burdick et al.(2) suggest, a term that encompasses the prevention of cognitive decline, which may be more evident in mood disorders versus schizophrenia, could be a positive step.